I've probably spent more time generating new races than actually playing the game, and I'm frequently impressed by the text that the generator creates as well as the interesting connections that it can form between brief and sometimes disconnected content.

However, I've also encountered some limitations that are persistent and make little sense.  I'll focus on three.  Two involve consistent repetition: Despite the wealth of possible names for societies and cultures, and the interesting names given to the pregenerated civilizations already include, Alien-GPT loves to refer to newly generated societies as "Ascendency".  Why so many Ascendancies?  Unless there is some in-universe explanation (the Precursors seeded sentient life with a preference for verticality that is not overcome by "ascent" out of their gravity well?) this would seem to be some kind of habitual bias in the generator.

I've also noticed considerable repetition in the leader names, far in excess of what would seem reasonable considering the immense wealth of names even that random name generators can produce.  Why are so many leaders named Seraphina? Aurelia/n?  These are perfectly good celestial and imperial-sounding names, but again, unless they are all evocations of some dimly remembered prescursor empire ruled by Seraphina or Aurelian a gazillion times over, I don't quite get why this pattern exists.  Relatedly, the generator has preference for simplistically symbolic names which, while amusing at first, gets a bit old.  It makes sense perhaps for some races to have such names (perhaps it represents how the universal translator handles their otherwise incomprehensible langauge-concepts), but most of these names could only be what *other* races call their world.  So it is as if Alien-GPT is generating races based on whatever the "Terran" stereotype would be -- how else to explain that the homeworld of a sapient cockroach-like species that survived its irradiation and ultimately came to flourish is called...."Nukroachia" ?  Similarly, even when not named Seraphina or Aurelian, leader names also tend to be simplistically evocative, like "Vexis Darkbane" or simple combinatorics of concepts that would seem more reasonable for children's sci-fi or pulpy sci-fi with clearly defined heroes and villains --- or perhaps for propaganda.  So again, it sometimes seems as though the leader names generated by Alien-GPT could at best be some kind of in-universe "meme" about the leader -- except that this is unlikely to make sense across species.  Although I can obviously devise my own material for flavor text, I am somewhat disappointed that not only does Alien-GPT not have more originality, it occasionally ignores a racial name even if I provide one in the short generation text.

Finally, speaking of things it ignores, the leader art generation seems entirely random, or sometimes skewed by bizarre repetition unrelated to the race.  I'm enjoying its variety of images, and I'm noticing the subtle variations it can produce based on the same image, but even when my text is very simple and I know that suitable images exist because I keep seeing them repeat for other races for which they would not be appropriate, they don't come up even after many, many shuffles when they *would* be appropriate.  Egregious instances include seeing everything other than cats for a feline race, never seeing any arachnids other than crabs and lobsters, in one case seeing nothing but yellow robots, page after page (the race were neither yellow nor robots...), and also frequently seeing bizarre variations that seem to relate to examples earlier given during the advertising and promotion of Alien-GPT's amazing capabilities.  I think I recall one being something about "sentient cheese" and another one being a race of ice cream.  Sure enough, almost no matter what I generate, some of the seemingly random leader pictures will be many variations on cheese and chocolate ice cream or mud.  Now that I'm writing this out, I suppose it constitutes an actual complaint.  I wouldn't necessarily feel *that* cheated to learn that the images are just random variations on pre-existing art (although AI art generators online seem to do much better), but I *do* feel cheated that apparently someone somewhere along the line was able to get Alien-GPT to learn to make sentient cheese and ice-cream people, but my bizarre ideas are simply ignored by the generator, and for the most part, the generated races are more reminiscent of randomized combinatorics from some set of races, such that there are just two "sets" to choose from --- the very small set to choose from manually, and the frustratingly tiny and repetitious set of "new" images that sometimes don't even pull up an obviously fitting image previously seen.  Even if I *designed a race* based on one of the images that I saw --- neither the image that I saw, nor any similar or related, will come up sometimes through *all* of the repetitions, even when the prompt is as basic as [animal]-race.